Re: devfs vs. udev

Måns Rullgård
2003-10-07T17:19:09Z

Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk> writes:

> Surely udev needs the ability to make more than one device node or
> symlink when a device is plugged in anyway, so I just see this as an
> issue of writing the appropriate default configuration files.

Now you say "plug in". How does udev deal with devices that don't
correspond something that can be plugged, physically or virtually
(PCI)? I'm thinking of things like ttys, loopback devices, etc.

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